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Is now the time for VR to take centre stage?
2018 was a pretty ordinary year for virtual reality (VR). It was having one of those troughs of despondency. Things, however, are changing. Read more…
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It must be virtually time for Virtual Reality to get real
While Virtual and Augmented Reality might have spent a while in the depths of disillusionment maybe the next year will see them on the way to the plateau of enlightment. Read more…
Off the Wire
GSMA launches forum to unify AR/VR development for 5G
The GSMA announced the launch of a new industry-wide initiative that will focus on the development of cloud-based virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) technology in a bid to to combat market fragmentation. The Read more…
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2025 is the 5G tipping point, and media will do the tipping
ITEM: The year 2025 will be the tipping point for 5G, and you’ll have media companies to thank for that. Or perhaps the other way around, as 5G will help media and entertainment companies generate Read more…
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5G WIRE: Users blissfully unaware of 5G; VR penalty kicks; etc
5G action this day: US consumer survey says: “5G? What 5G?”; Nokia and du play VR football to demo 5G; SK Telecom makes a 5G NSA call US consumer survey says: “5G? What 5G?” US Read more…
Features
Friday Futures: AI supremacy, robot brothels, saving Chewbacca
Welcome to Friday Futures, our weekly guide to the latest visions of The Future from around the web. This week: how the US will defeat itself in the AI race; BlackBerry saves Earth from quantum Read more…
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The VR market slump is more than just a hiccup
There is little doubt that the market for virtual reality (VR) has entered the trough of disillusionment and it will take real progress on the limitations of the technology before it comes out again. IDC’s Read more…
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Huawei powers China Mobile’s new cloud VR service in Fujian
China Mobile Fujian (a.k.a. Fujian Mobile) has launched a ‘cloud VR’ service that entailed upgrading its fiber broadband service from 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps – and Huawei says it helped with all of that. Read more…
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5G WIRE: Emergency blimp, vertical R&D, live 8K VR and 5G cores
5G action this day: KT unveils a 5G blimp for emergency rescue ops; Nokia and Tencent in R&D pact for 5G vertical apps; DoCoMo develops live 8K VR streaming system; Samsung and SK Telecom demo Read more…
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M1 and Huawei gear up to test 5G with 360-view VR broadcasts
Singaporean cellco M1 and Huawei announced plans to jointly showcase local 5G use cases, starting with a live demonstration of 360-view VR broadcasts by end of this month. The demo, using 5G equipment set up Read more…